Niederhofheim Jewish cemetery
Map with all coordinates: The Jewish cemetery in Niederhofheim (community of Liederbach am Taunus , Main-Taunus-Kreis) is the burial place of the former Jewish community of the village.
history
There is evidence of a Jewish cemetery in Niederhofheim from the first quarter of the 17th century. The area originally laid out on Feldstrasse served the communities in Höchst am Main , Soden , Hofheim , Hattersheim and Okriftel as a burial place. It was closed in 1873. At that time its area was 0.22 hectares. The area was cleared and leveled during the Nazi era. After the transfer back to the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO) after the Second World War, it sold the property to the Niederhofheim community, which built a sports and playground here.
- Geocoordinate old cemetery: 50 ° 7 ′ 22.2 ″ N , 8 ° 28 ′ 46.8 ″ E
After a newly built cemetery in Soden had served as a burial place from 1873 , the Jewish community of Niederhofheim laid a new cemetery on the Liederbach for their deceased in 1879 . The community existed until 1925, ten years later, the Hirsch family, the last Jewish family left the place. The area of the new cemetery was also cleared during the Third Reich. Five tombstones have been preserved. After the synagogue was demolished in 1962/63, they are the most important testimony to the formerly large Jewish community in Niederhofheim. There are also four tombstones from the old cemetery. All nine stones are placed on a strip of green on the edge of the former new cemetery.
- Geocoordinate new cemetery: 50 ° 7 ′ 16.7 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 6.5 ″ E
literature
- Simone Balsam, Sonja Bonin, Michael Nitz: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Main-Taunus-Kreis (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany), Wiesbaden 2003.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Jewish Cemetery Niederhofheim In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Niederhofheim Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica
- Information in the State Historical Information System Hesse (LAGIS)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Section 106 No. 784 and Section 140 No. 687.
